Poppies Beaconsfield Day Nursery & Pre School
Harrias Barn, Hedgerley Ln, Beaconsfield HP9 2SD
Nursery Assistant
40 hours per week
Monday - Friday, All year round
Salary £8.60 - £11.44 per hour
The Carshalton Day Nursery & Pre School are looking for an enthusiastic Nursery Assistant to join our growing team, we’re a unique nursery benefiting from a long standing team, we’re growing and we’re looking for likeminded individuals to join the fun!
Poppies Beaconsfield Day Nursery & Pre School is Ofsted rated Good and is based on a former farm across two spacious barn conversions with large rooms and a large natural garden. Our management team have been at the nursery for 18 + years and have a friendly long-standing team. We have parking available, and the nursery is a 15-minute walk from transport links.
This role is working 40 hours per week, various shifts patterns between the opening and closing times of the nursery 8:00am - 18:00pm. This nursery is open all year round and is not a term time only role. Salary ranging from £8.60 - £11.44 per hour depending on qualifications and experience. Within this role you will need to provide the highest standard of compliance, care and education for children, and effectively manage daily operations of the nursery, including positive partnerships with management, colleagues and parents.
As Nursery Assistant, you will:
* Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor at all times
* Understand the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS and staff:child ratios
* Provide engaging and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children, that are appropriate to their age and stage of development
* Facilitate a strong key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments and cover all children daily when colleagues are absent
* Observe and support children’s development, update the EyLog system and children’s learning journals with accuracy and relevance, and seek guidance from colleagues or Room Leader if in doubt
* Provide the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.
We are: Defined by Family
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.
Poppies Beaconsfield Day Nursery & Pre-School is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.
Benefits
Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.
Vacancy Reference: HP9 2SD
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